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Muriel Camberg who was later known as Muriel Spark was born February 1, 1918 in Edinburgh Scotland. In her childhood she entered reading and poetry contests. She would end up winning a lot of them for her school. She learned Latin and Greek. She went to James Gillespie High School for girls in her teens. While at the school she met an educator by the name of Christina Kay who would end up being the inspiration for Miss Jean Brodie. She met Oswald Spark and got married. When Spark was 19 her and Oswald went to Africa. The relationship didn’t go well because of Oswald’s mental problems and they would end up divorcing. Spark would end up leaving Robin in South Africa to be raised by nuns. Spark went back to England and worked for the intelligence core in WWII. …show more content…

She began to get involved with a group of people who were into literature and was a secretary for the British Poetry Society in 1949. In 1954 Spark would suffer a nervous breakdown and would convert to Roman Catholicism. Her Catholic ideals would be present in her books. She releases The Comforters in 1957 which got the attention of famous writers Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. She would go on to make 17 novels in her lifetime. Her most famous work The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was released in 1961. She would live in Italy for the rest of her life. She would write her own autobiography in 1992 called Curriculum Vitae. The year after that she would receive a special honor from Queen Elizabeth II. In 1997 she would receive the David Cohen prize for all of her works. She would write her last book The Finishing School in 2004. She would die April 13, 2006 in Florence

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